Managing possibility of suggestion to update pull request - disable merge commit

[Bearwolves]

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Dear Github community,

I was looking for disabling the merge commit possibility from the Update button strategy but couldn't find a way. Is there any?
I'm not speaking about the Merge button which already has the configuration possibility :)

I believe some of us would rather prefer having either rebase or the merge enabled or even be able to set another default would already be helpful.

Related documentation

• https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/configuring-branches-and-merges-in-your-repository/configuring-pull-request-merges/managing-suggestions-to-update-pull-request-branches

Related discussions

• https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/3245

Thanks a lot for your help :)

[hsuabina]

This would be a nice feature. While the update button is helpful to avoid having to rebase your branches yourself, it's not so much when you accidentally add a merge commit in your branch because 'Update by merge commit' is the default.

So while the feature would be complete by allowing you to disable the merge commit / rebase strategies individually, even allowing changing the default would be already useful.

+1

[Keavon]

Duplicate of https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/12032

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